• Mark with a Z@suppo.fi
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    1 month ago

    AI generated or not, marketing Dubai evacuation flights with influencer selfies is too funny

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      I think this is hilarious. People who help enable such a terrible country and actively promote it don’t get any sympathy. I’ll save that for the slaves unable to leave.

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          Go to the regional subreddits. They’re dominated by expats, and I bet you’ll rediscover your sense of schadenfreude right quick.

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            You were right I found it back for the pets these “expat” are letting behind.

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              These people had no problem living in a slave city or abandoning their pets to die of thirst, as exemplified by that post.

              Which proves my point…

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                Ho boy… I though you were defending them… My bad

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            You right, can you link me to the reddit where the slaves used to build and maintain Dubai are speaking about their evacuations ?

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                  No, I’m saying they’re pieces of shit who chose to live in a slave city, and have no problem abandoning their pets.

                  So no matter how many bombs fall, I will never feel sorry for those expats.

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      As a dirty American, we just borrow schadenfreude from German usually in my experience.

      There are English phrases that approximate it - like “taking enjoyment in another’s misery” but not really a word, at least one I can think of.

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        just translate it literally and adopt it as an official english word: Miseryentertainment

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    1 month ago

    I’ve noticed that high tech AI generates photorealistic images in ways that reveal a lot of complexion details that most consumer phones hide. Zoom in, look at those big blotchy freckles.

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      5 years ago I would’ve thought that fabricating a convincing face would be difficult and fabricating a lamp post would be easy, but here we are.

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    1 month ago

    Finally! A use case for AI! Oh wait we already knew it‘s used in all sorts of scams and criminal activity.